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Here is a top Microsoft executive admitting that Mono is a patent problem for GNU/Linux. We also discussed the effects on OpenOffice.org back in 2006. Microsoft admitted this again on several occasions later on (even in 2008 when Brian Goldfarb accidentally confessed).

“Our company has started offering systems with the new Asus mobo ’s with Express Gate. Asus has provided no way of installing it without Windows already installed. […] It’s on the Asus utilities disk. You can’t install it without Windows installed first because Asus only provides a Windows installer.”

IDC/IDG is doing business with Microsoft, so a relationship was formed.

Why is anyone still defending Novell? Is it because Novell and Microsoft gag journalists, police coverage, hijack voices, and have it all serve as brainwash touting a treasonous relationship?

This article, which is titled “Microfraud?”, provides a testimony from a Microsoft insider who claims financial fraud. Interestingly enough (but not so surprisingly), Microsoft paid him a fortune to go away, keep quiet, and for the terms of the settlement not to be disclosed (recall Iowa and Caldera for similar examples).

The collaboration is nothing but another attempt to stop Red Hat, Ubuntu and the rest of them, ensuring all of GNU/Linux is taxed and policed by Microsoft.

If you are aware of more marketing companies that Microsoft uses (there are plenty), please share supportive information here. It’s worth getting to the bottom of this.

Another look at the renewed ASUS-Microsoft relationship (and Intel); CompTIA returns to haunt

The role of Mono and Novell in fulfilling Microsoft's desire to change GNU/Linux

Microsoft turns out not to be a fan of open source after all.

In this latest summary of reports, we concentrate mainly on the effect of the current patent terrain on FOSS.

Remember what Microsoft has in mind. As Steve Ballmer once shouted (and even damaged his vocal chords in the process), it's "Windows Windows Windows".

We rely very much on journalists to help us sift through the muddier waters of the river of truth, and Joe Barr was one of the best

Microsoft sponsored OSCON. Very, very handsomely. Lots of money exchanged hands so that Microsoft can be nearer to its #1 competitor (according to Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie).

Assortment of financial analyses about Microsoft and its disappointing quarterly report

Microsoft is buying the election and is set to decide on its non-existent proprietary formats next week.

VMWare mustnâ??t be taken on a similar type of ride under EMCâ??s reign. EMC, just like Citrix, is one of Microsoftâ??s top partners and it controls VMWare, in charge of which it put a Microsoft man.

More new signs of Microsoft poisoning Free software using sponsorships, acquisitions, and Mono

Microsoft is once again dumping its non-Free software on 11 million children in a country that moves to GNU/Linux

Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year